What do any of you know of my Palestine? Of the late night queer parties in Ramallah? Of raves held in biblically aged buildings? Of lesbians in hijabs, of gay men in hoop earrings, of trans Palestinians dancing with joyful abandon?
(1/3)
We fear Israel first, before our families, always. We're 100 times more likely to die at the hands of an Israeli gun or bomb than by western propagandized ideas of honor killings.
I've seen White Christian Americans wish their child be dead rather than gay. (2/3)
Israel is the one that weaponizes the homophobia that Queer people all over the world of all religions experience to justify murdering Palestinians of all kinds, young and old, Christian and Muslim, Queer and Straight. (3/3)
@nlygo
Did you even bother to read the article you posted?
"Palestinians also expressed revulsion at the beheading."
A presenter for KRS (a Palestinian radio station said the crime had "crossed every single red line in our society, whether in terms of morals, customs or basic humanity"
Let's talk about my experience being Queer in a Palestinian Muslim family. And how it's used against me. I have family members who accept me and family members who don't, I know many other Queer Palestinians who have the same experience as me, (1/7)
@GeraldKamp1
@mickeychazz
And what is your point here? That because there are Palestinians homophobes that we deserve everything that's happening to us? Have you looked at the statistics about gay and trans hate crimes in the US? Have you seen the legislation being passed in red states?
@nlygo
would a trans women or drag queen be welcome in Texas or Florida?
If not then no one in those states deserves human rights ~ that's how you sound posting this ; see how your narrative is based on a logical fallacy?
what is unique to Palestinians is that we're the only people who have homophobia weaponized against us to justify our genocide. Where is your empathy, or your outrage for that hypocrisy? How can we fight to expand civil rights if we're struggling to even get human rights? (4/7)
@nlygo
Also, on 7/29/23, O'Shae Sibley, a 28 y/o gay man, was stabbed and later died outside a gas station in Brooklyn, NY. The suspect responsible for the stabbing was identified as a 17y/o, who turned himself in on 8/4/23, and was charged with 2nd degree murder as a hate crime.
If Gazans are struggling to get water/food/shelter/safety from civilian targeted bombings, do you think they can focus on sexual liberation while being treated as subhuman by Israel? (5/7)
Think of all the children who've died who could have been the wave of social change you all accuse us of needing, who are now dead under the rubble, or traumatized and/or displaced for life. One cannot strive for queer liberation if they are struggling just to survive. (6/7)
I was married to a man and there were members of my Muslim family who congratulated me and those who cut me out of their life, which is a common experience for most queer people across the globe of all religions and races. (2/7)
It takes just one look Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to understand why Palestinian aren't able to put the cart before the horse. No one can or should be expected to! (7/7)
There are also Palestinians who wish violence/death on their gay family members as is the case with many white christian or jewish families in America and everywhere else in the world, that narrative is not unique to us. (3/7)
My dream is to one day be able to build a queer venue in Palestine with my house above it. Without the risk of Israel destroying it. Without the risk of settlers taking it. Without the risk of power/ water outages. Without the risk of dying on an IOF checkpoint on the way home.
you mean you wont take the word of a queer palestinian with over a decade of experience living in Palestine under the occupation, with degrees in political science and international relations who fled Israeli apartheid because it was hell to survive let alone thrive? shocking...
The replies under this remind me of how homo/transphobes talk about us. Anyone who steps out of the homonormative status quo is a deviant. This is why our rights are under attack again. Y'all want to fit in so bad that you'll chuck the rest of us for the straights to accept you
There is a broad effort in gay clubs/bars in the US to discourage Pro-Palestinian activism. The hypocrisy or general ignorance of which doesn’t take into account the centrality of the Vietnam war & anti-war movement to the emergence of the Gay liberation movement in the US (1/10)
@divinely_uninsp
@BMcCulloch67
@legallynotpam
@kaelinrooney
@chemicollins
Y'all need to calm down, it's just Twitter. Lol, he's Colombian but he grew up in Nicaragua which is why he calls it combustible and truth be told he doesn't just forget English, he forgets how to speak sometimes, as do all of us. Lol so cálmate.
Why are ppl in the West demanding that Palestinians have fully fought for civil rights before they are given freedom
You can only fight for those things when bombs aren't being dropped on your head.
Westerners need to do better critical thinking.
Queer Palestinians exist.
As a Palestinian it's so agonizing to only get to hear your mother tongue in your specific accent online when it's spoken by a survivor of a bombing or a massacre. The only representation I get to see online is mostly through the death or demonization of my people.
I'm really struggling. Every day I wake up to more news from Palestine, my soul can't take anymore. What my people are experiencing I have no framework nor tools to handle. How can I or any of us recover? No will save us. I am broken. (1/6)
One of the main reasons I haven't posted more about my time is I'm not trying to give away any details that would allow the IOF to exploit the Palestinian Queer underground
THIS! There's this really good book that I want to read again called "before homosexuality in the Arab Islamic world" that talks about how pathologizing gayness/criminalization/codifying homophobia was factually imported through colonialism from the west.